Reborn in the Cold Palace: I Take My Sister's Place in the Selection from the Start

Shen Yuan was reborn.

In her previous life, she took her elder half-sister’s place in the palace. At nineteen, she was banished to the Cold Palace. At twenty-five, she died after an imperial decree ordered her execution. She never learned who had altered the decree. All she knew was that she died on the ninth day of the seventh month in the third year of Jinghe.

In this life, she is fifteen, with the selection just three days away. Her stepmother says, “Go in Wan’er’s place.”

In her previous life, she had knelt and wept. This time, she says, “All right.”

She knows who will win, but not who will die. She only knows that whenever she faces a choice, she will never run away again.

From a concubine-born daughter sent to the selection in her sister’s place, to a low-ranking consort living beside the Cold Palace. From silver needles used to identify poisons, to a wooden token handed to her by the leader of a secret chamber. From an obsession with having to choose every time, to the day she stands at the pinnacle of power.

Prince Qin, Xiao Yan, has feigned disability for three years, waiting for a player of the game. And now she has come.

He asks where she came from. She says, “The Cold Palace.”

He says, “It doesn’t matter where you came from.”

The ninth day of the seventh month in the third year of Jinghe. She lived to see it.